Yes we would have 3-6 months of shutdowns on website due to the fear of liability, including this very site.
But Congress would step up quickly to write new legislation that would make it crystal clear as to how you gain liability protection.
It can be done but right now social media giants get the best of both worlds, the edit and censor like publishers while getting the protection of a platform.
One tweak they would need to add is fan based or lets saw a site focused on hunting. The Hunting website could censor/delete posts regarding PETA and not be forced to become publishers.
What can't happen is a site claiming to be a public forum like twtter and allow them to ban conservatives. If twitter declared they were a SJW site then by all means they can ban who they want but even then they started as an open forum so they might be stuck as being open (they abused being 'open' to gain massive followings, had they been declared SJW from day one it would have never grown).
Twitter has declared themselves an SJW site. Read their terms of use.
If Twitter branded themselves as "only for communists" tomorrow do you think there would be a mass exodus? Nope, people are addicted to followers.
I think you're right about the "they'd be forced to make a new law" thing, but the plan could backfire. It could just force the US out as a place for innovation in the networking space. We could wind up having to use foreign sites just to publish our thoughts, subject to their laws. I don't know about you but I'd rather be able to talk about the Holocaust or criticize Islam and maybe have to go to a smaller website, I'd rather be subject to the rules of websites which I can switch between than the laws of foreign governments.
Or the government could decide to write some fucked up law that regulates what we say online, not just protecting us from censorship. Or the government could write a law firmly entrenching the big tech sites as institutions online even more. Or the government could write a law that opens you or I up to lawsuits if we decide to make a website and try to keep it topic specific. What happens with a "free speech" law online if we try to deport commies on this website?
I just don't see a real solution to this other than "if you make the website you decide what people can say on it" which is what we have now. And I'd definitely rather have to pick a different website to have conversations on than be able to say whatever on twitter but not be able to run my own website and risk lawsuits. I think the solution to this big tech censorship stuff is to just not use big tech, which is what I personally do.
Yes . But along with them every other site that allows user content. Including THIS. But what is even more likely to happen is the big sites will employ much stricter filters and A WHOLE LOT OF MODERATORS . and the smaller sites will be completely dead . Because who the fuck would want to start a site with such liabilities hanging over your head.
They would get sued into bankruptcy overnight and would become a footnote in history books.
Yes we would have 3-6 months of shutdowns on website due to the fear of liability, including this very site.
But Congress would step up quickly to write new legislation that would make it crystal clear as to how you gain liability protection.
It can be done but right now social media giants get the best of both worlds, the edit and censor like publishers while getting the protection of a platform.
One tweak they would need to add is fan based or lets saw a site focused on hunting. The Hunting website could censor/delete posts regarding PETA and not be forced to become publishers.
What can't happen is a site claiming to be a public forum like twtter and allow them to ban conservatives. If twitter declared they were a SJW site then by all means they can ban who they want but even then they started as an open forum so they might be stuck as being open (they abused being 'open' to gain massive followings, had they been declared SJW from day one it would have never grown).
Twitter has declared themselves an SJW site. Read their terms of use.
If Twitter branded themselves as "only for communists" tomorrow do you think there would be a mass exodus? Nope, people are addicted to followers.
I think you're right about the "they'd be forced to make a new law" thing, but the plan could backfire. It could just force the US out as a place for innovation in the networking space. We could wind up having to use foreign sites just to publish our thoughts, subject to their laws. I don't know about you but I'd rather be able to talk about the Holocaust or criticize Islam and maybe have to go to a smaller website, I'd rather be subject to the rules of websites which I can switch between than the laws of foreign governments.
Or the government could decide to write some fucked up law that regulates what we say online, not just protecting us from censorship. Or the government could write a law firmly entrenching the big tech sites as institutions online even more. Or the government could write a law that opens you or I up to lawsuits if we decide to make a website and try to keep it topic specific. What happens with a "free speech" law online if we try to deport commies on this website?
I just don't see a real solution to this other than "if you make the website you decide what people can say on it" which is what we have now. And I'd definitely rather have to pick a different website to have conversations on than be able to say whatever on twitter but not be able to run my own website and risk lawsuits. I think the solution to this big tech censorship stuff is to just not use big tech, which is what I personally do.
Yes . But along with them every other site that allows user content. Including THIS. But what is even more likely to happen is the big sites will employ much stricter filters and A WHOLE LOT OF MODERATORS . and the smaller sites will be completely dead . Because who the fuck would want to start a site with such liabilities hanging over your head.